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On the Beach: Racial Confrontation in Australia
In December, about 5,000 Australian youths gathered on one of Sydney's major surf beaches and attacked men described
as "Middle Easterners." Christine Inglis of the University of Sydney looks at the violence and the government response, and assesses the
integration of Lebanese Australians. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
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From Horseback to High-Tech: US Border Enforcement
Border control has evolved from a low-tech, one-agency exercise focused strictly on the Southwestern border to a far broader concept.
MPI's Deborah Waller Meyers provides a detailed look at border-enforcement strategies and policies since the 1980s.
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MPI's Julia Gelatt reports on immigration leadership appointments, changes to the citizenship test,
criticism of immigration judges, new border initiatives, and more.
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This month the Source takes an in-depth look at the recent riots in Australia and the history of border enforcement in the United States.
We also profile Latvia and Argentina, provide updates on US policymaking, and examine the latest data on US students with limited proficiency in English.
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Although this former Soviet republic joined the European Union in 2004, its main concern is its large ethnic Russian population.
Tim Heleniak of the University of Maryland explains.
Latvia Resource Page
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Despite skilled emigration outflows, Argentina consistently attracts new economic migrants from its neighbors in the
southern cone of Latin America. Maia Jachimowicz of Princeton University reports. Argentina Resource Page |
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The Roma of Eastern Europe: Still Searching for Inclusion
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Over one million Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority, became EU citizens in May 2004 when
eight former communist states joined the EU. But their second-class status persists, as Arno Tanner of the Finnish
Directorate of Immigration explains.
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The number of Haitians acquiring legal permanent residence (LPR) in the United States closely tracks political events in Haiti.
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